AWS Certification Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 124 260
Rank change year-on-year -49 +136 -107
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 37 33 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.48% 1.19% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.83% 3.01% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 33 22 13
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £46,729 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £56,745 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% -12.70% -3.70%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £97,250 £81,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £71,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -47.37% -8.06% -3.13%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,026 1,096 3,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.39% 39.61% 31.96%
Number of salaries quoted 999 683 2,186
10th Percentile £30,900 £27,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +0.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the South West over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -6 22 £37,500 -21.05% 15
Devon -17 4 £52,500 - 5
Gloucestershire -26 4 £60,500 +0.83% 4
Somerset -27 2 - - 3
Cornwall - 2 £47,000 -
Dorset -9 1 £100,000 - 2
Wiltshire -24 1 £31,000 -45.37% 4
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (16.22%) Jupyter
2 5 (13.51%) Confluence
3 2 (5.41%) WordPress
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Drupal
4 1 (2.70%) IIS
4 1 (2.70%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Chatbot
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (54.05%) Azure
3 10 (27.03%) GitHub
4 9 (24.32%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
5 8 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (21.62%) Serverless
6 6 (16.22%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (13.51%) CloudFront
7 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (10.81%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (8.11%) GCP
10 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Internet
2 4 (10.81%) IPv4
2 4 (10.81%) Network Security
2 4 (10.81%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.70%) Redis
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) Bitbucket
2 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (13.51%) JIRA
5 4 (10.81%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) Gatling
6 1 (2.70%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.70%) JMeter
6 1 (2.70%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (27.03%) Multimedia
2 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Manufacturing
3 6 (16.22%) Retail
4 4 (10.81%) Aerospace
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Swedish Language
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Trainee
2 9 (24.32%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 6 (16.22%) Programmer
3 6 (16.22%) Security Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Trainee Programmer
4 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Trainee Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Service Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Trainee Software Developer
8 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) CSS
1 10 (27.03%) HTML
2 6 (16.22%) Hugging Face
2 6 (16.22%) Matplotlib
2 6 (16.22%) NumPy
2 6 (16.22%) Pandas
2 6 (16.22%) scikit-learn
2 6 (16.22%) Streamlit
3 4 (10.81%) boto
4 1 (2.70%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.70%) Memcached
4 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Algorithms
1 6 (16.22%) PKI
2 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 9 (24.32%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Mentoring
2 15 (40.54%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
3 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (21.62%) Cloud Security
4 8 (21.62%) Customer Service
5 7 (18.92%) TOGAF
6 6 (16.22%) AI
6 6 (16.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (16.22%) Cryptography
6 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
6 6 (16.22%) Neural Network
6 6 (16.22%) OO
6 6 (16.22%) OOP
6 6 (16.22%) Prompt Engineering
6 6 (16.22%) Risk Analysis
6 6 (16.22%) Security Architecture
6 6 (16.22%) Visualisation
6 6 (16.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
3 9 (24.32%) Bash
4 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
5 7 (18.92%) R
6 5 (13.51%) Java
7 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.70%) Go
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) Azure Certification
2 17 (45.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (43.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
5 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
6 6 (16.22%) CISM
6 6 (16.22%) CISSP
6 6 (16.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (10.81%) CCNA
8 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (10.81%) ISTQB
8 4 (10.81%) OSCP
8 4 (10.81%) RHCE
8 4 (10.81%) RHCSA
9 3 (8.11%) Degree
10 2 (5.41%) MCSE
11 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (18.92%) NCSC
2 6 (16.22%) GDPR
2 6 (16.22%) NIST
2 6 (16.22%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.41%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) iptables
3 4 (10.81%) Squid
3 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
3 4 (10.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Ansible
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Packer
2 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
2 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
2 5 (13.51%) Puppet
3 4 (10.81%) Grafana
3 4 (10.81%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.70%) Argo
4 1 (2.70%) Consul
4 1 (2.70%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 23 (62.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.81%) Splunk
2 4 (10.81%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) TOWER Software